Democratic

§1Ballot status

✎ Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.

It is on the list of Mississippi's parties that we assembled from state law and official candidate lists, ballots or results^1,3,4, because we couldn't read a single official list. A list built that way can miss a party that has status but no 2026 candidates.

The sample ballot prints this party's label as Democrat.³

How a party qualifies in Mississippi

Mississippi sets no vote or petition threshold for party status: a party must organize its state and county executive committees under its own rules and register its name with the Secretary of State within 30 days of organizing.² Registration is a letter applying for registration with the names of any affiliated organizations, a sworn list of state executive committee members, national committee members and officers, and copies of the party's rules or bylaws.² A party that is not organized and registered this way may not hold primaries or put candidates on the ballot.² Where in the source: § 23-15-1063

How a party keeps its status

A registered party must update its registration with the Secretary of State every year and file any new or changed rules within seven days of adopting them.² Where in the source: §§ 23-15-1059(2), 23-15-1061 We found no vote-share test for keeping party status in the Secretary of State's materials.²

§2How it picks nominees

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Primary election. ^4,5

Mississippi's rules for nominating

Party candidates file a qualifying statement and fee with the party's executive committee and seek the nomination in a party primary, followed by a runoff four weeks later if needed; the winners are the party's nominees in November.⁴ Where in the source: p. 11 A primary nominee needs a majority of the votes; otherwise the top two candidates meet in a runoff.⁵ Candidates may instead run as independents by filing a qualifying petition signed by a set number of registered voters that depends on the office; they appear with no party label.⁴ Where in the source: p. 12

§3On the 2026 ballot

5 Candidates for U.S. Senate, U.S. House or governor whose label on Mississippi's November 3 ballot names this party, from the state's official candidate list. Labels are shown exactly as the ballot prints them. Other offices aren't covered yet.

§4Notes on Mississippi’s party research

What the research couldn’t find or confirm about Mississippi’s parties, in its own plain words. Nothing is left out silently.

• We found no official list of registered political parties on the Secretary of State's website. The parties here are those whose candidates appear on the Secretary's 2026 Candidate Qualifying List and the official sample ballot for November 3, 2026. Other parties may be registered with the Secretary of State but have no 2026 candidates.
• The official Mississippi Code is hosted by a vendor behind its own terms of use, so we did not read it. Party statutes come from the copy the Secretary of State reprints in its party registration pamphlet (revised March 2022).
• The qualifying list prints Democratic; the sample ballot prints Democrat for the same candidates.
• The list is derived, not complete: Mississippi publishes no list of registered parties, and a party keeps its status by staying registered with the Secretary of State rather than by meeting a vote test. The three parties here are those with nominees on the 2026 Candidate Qualifying List; the Secretary of State's 2024 Official Statewide Results also show presidential nominees under Green and Constitution labels, so those parties, and possibly others, may still hold status for 2026 (an independent verifier's finding).